FK Alexander
”What’s the bravest thing you ever did?”
He spat into the road a bloody phlegm
”Getting up this morning,” he said.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
NOWHERE//NOW HERE is a bold, provocative and uncompromising work, combining action based performance with film collage and specifically designed sonics.
Images of Glasgow’s Red Road demolition and demented post capitalist western ‘civilisation’ are set to a hypnotic and relentless score, while FK Alexander makes a lone journey with coal – at once a highly physical and demanding task in space, and vividly evocative of both personal struggle and the ramifications of the human toll on a fragile and scorched earth.
Featuring original sound by Sarah Glass
THIS ACTION BASED WORK EMPLOYS – PHYSICAL ENDURANCE / HARSH MEDITATION / COMPLEX SONICS / RED FOCUS / WOUND / RECOVERY / REPETITION / VOLUME / LIGHT / NOISE. I CHOOSE THE BODY AS THE SITE / THE PLAYGROUND / THE VENUE / THE TOOL / THE BATTLEGROUND. THE CONFRONTATION I SEEK BASIC, STARK – TO BE OR NOT TO BE. I VEER WILDLY THROUGH THE DAYS – AT ONCE IMPELLED TO LIVE YET DESTINED TO DIE. I CREATE AND OFFER MY ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE THE EXTRAORDINARY VIOLENCE AND RHYTHM OF LIFE – WHAT USE AMID THIS, OH ME, OH LIFE? THIS – MY GUN AND MY WHITE FLAG. I SURRENDER MY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE GROUND I WORSHIP AS I SCUTTLE ACROSS. THE SUN CONTINUES TO RISE SO I MUST TOO.
Duration: 90 mins.
Presented at Toynbee Studios as part of Spill Festival (2015) and at Tramway, Glasgow (2016)